OH MY GOSH!!!!!!! I'M SO HAPPY!!!! This is the most reviews I've ever gotten at one time!! I got 17 reviews on the last chapter!!!! OMG!!!!!! I know some of you people get a lot of reviews and think I'm crazy, but I really didn't think that this story was going to be that popular! It got more reviews than any chapter of my other two did! Thanks a WHOLE BUNCH!!!!!!

Btw, I've been getting a lot of complaints about short chapters, so I'll try my best to make them longer!

Review responses will be at the bottom this time.

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"Momma!! Momma!! Wake up!! It's my birthday!!! Wake up!"

Tsuki opened her eyes to find her son bouncing up and down in excitement. She pulled herself out of bed and followed the eager young hanyou to the main room of the house.

"Did you get me something?"

"Of course!"

She handed a small bundle of cloth to Inuyasha who eagerly unwrapped it. Inside was a child-sized wooden sword with its own wooden sheath. Inuyasha held it up to admire it.

"Wow! Thanks!"

Tsuki smiled as she watched her son play with his new toy. This was his sixteenth birthday, though he still looked like a normal five-year-old boy. That was the way half-demons aged. Inuyasha would have to live with the fact that he was rejected by the world for such a long time.

"I love it! It's perfect! Can I take it outside? Please?"

"Be careful."

"Thank you, mother!"

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Kagome, Sango, Miroku, Shippo, and Kirara all sat on top of a village building, discussing their situation. Thankfully, nobody could see them, so they didn't look too strange.

"So what exactly are we supposed to do?" Kagome asked.

"There's nothing we can do, I suppose," Miroku replied.

"What do you mean there's nothing we can do? We can't stay here, in this time!"

"I don't know what's going to happen. I'm not exactly sure how it works, but we might be stuck here for a while."

"How long?"

"Maybe a few days, maybe a month. Who knows? We could be stuck here for years."

"YEARS?!!!"

"It's possible."

"We can't be stuck here for YEARS!!"

"Calm down, Kagome. We'll find some way to get back soon," Sango tried to calm her friend.

"There's nothing we can do to get back sooner," Miroku said. "We'll just have to wait until the demon's spell wears off."

"So what do we do until then?" Kagome asked. Then a little flash of red and silver caught her attention.

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Inuyasha ran through the town as happy as any boy could be. He swung his wooden sword around, taking jabs at an invisible foe. Suddenly, he stopped. He was looking into the face of someone he did not want to see. It was one of the boys from the day before.

"What are you doing, freak?" The boy spotted Inuyasha's sword. "What's this?" he asked, snatching the sword away from Inuyasha.

"No! That's my birthday present! Give it back!"

"Oh, no! I couldn't give this back to you! You could get hurt playing with this! That's the last thing I want!"

"Give it ba-"the boy shoved Inuyasha off to the side.

"I think I'll keep it since it's too dangerous for you. I'll just try it out."

The boy began to swing the sword around carelessly. He suddenly swung the sword as hard as he could into the side of a building. The wooden sword cracked in half.

"Oops!" the village boy said sarcastically. He threw the two halves of the sword to the ground and walked away laughing. Inuyasha knelt beside his broken sword, tears stinging his eyes.

'Why are they all so mean? Why does no one care?'

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Kagome sat on the roof of the building gaping at what had just happened.

"That JERK!! How could he do something like that?! I bet Inuyasha's never done anything to him and he goes and breaks his birthday present for no reason!"

"That's what being a hanyou means, Kagome," Miroku told her sadly.

"Well it shouldn't mean that and I'm gonna do something about it!" Kagome said, climbing down from the roof of the building.

"I guess we know what we'll be doing for a while," Sango said.

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Inuyasha wiped the tears from his eyes and tried to calm his breathing. He picked up the two pieces of his sword and walked home.

Tsuki was alerted by the sound of muffled sobs, like someone had just been crying and she had a good idea who it was, too.

"Inuyasha? What's the matter? Did you hurt yourself? I told you to be careful."

Inuyasha poked his head into the room.

"I didn't hurt myself, mother."

"Then what happened?"

Inuyasha showed her the two broken pieces of the sword. "Hihan broke it," he told his mother, the tears forcing their way through again.

Tsuki could feel the anger building up inside her, but she was careful not to let it show. She motioned for Inuyasha to sit on her lap. Inuyasha crawled up onto her lap and gave her the sword. Tsuki set it on the floor next to her.

"Mother, why did he break my sword?"

"Only because he was jealous he didn't have a sword like yours."

"Really?"

"Of course. I would be jealous."

Inuyasha snuggled into his mother's warm soft kimono and breathed in her scent, letting all his troubles slip away.

~Later that evening~

Kagome sat on the grass at the edge of the village pond, thinking of a way to make up for Inuyasha's broken present. Miroku, Sango, and Shippo sat nearby. Kirara had gone into town to see if she could steal some food from the local fish market for them. Suddenly, Kagome was shaken from her thoughts by shouts.

"Demon!"

"Get back here, you little thief!"

Kagome glanced up to see Kirara with a bundle of fish in her mouth running towards her. The odd thing was she was being chased by a group of villagers.

"What's going on?" she asked aloud. "I thought they couldn't see us!"

Kirara leapt up into Sango's arms. The villagers stopped dead in their tracks with a horrified look on their faces.

"I-It's floating!"

Apparently Sango was still invisible to them. The villagers ran away, glancing back with terrified looks on their faces.

"That's weird," Sango said. "For some reason, they could see Kirara."

"I'VE GOT IT!!!" Kagome shouted.

"Got what?"

"Sango, I have a favor to ask you."

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Kagome, Sango, Miroku, Shippo, and Kirara all hid in the bushes in view of Inuyasha's house. They were waiting for Inuyasha to go to bed before they set their plan into action. Eventually, they saw Inuyasha climb into his bed.

"Finally!" Kagome said. "Okay, Kirara. You know what to do."

Kirara mewed and them ran stealthily into Inuyasha's house. Through the window to Inuyasha's room, Kagome could see Kirara curl up next to Inuyasha.

"Perfect," she said.

~In the morning~

Inuyasha felt an odd warmth next to his face. Without opening his eyes, he reached a hand up and felt something warm and furry. The furry thing moved and something wet touched his hand.

"Mew!"

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"Momma! Momma!"

Tsuki opened her eyes as her son dashed into her room and onto her bed.

"Momma look! I found this on my bed this morning!"

Tsuki gasped as her son held up a red-eyed, two-tailed cat.

"Mew!"

"Are you sure it isn't dangerous, Inuyasha?

"No, it's really nice! Watch!"

Inuyasha stroked the cat's fur and it purred happily. Then Tsuki saw the small piece of paper tied around the cat's neck. She untied it and read it aloud.

"It says 'Happy Birthday, Inuyasha.'"

"Someone gave me a birthday present!! Can I keep it?"

"Well I suppose so, if it's a gift."

"Yay! Whoever you are, thank you!"

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"You're welcome," Kagome said.

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Review responses:

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